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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What proposal did Prince Lubovedsky make to Gurdjieff and his friends?
(a) to travel to Egypt with him to search for pre-sand treasure
(b) to join him on a big expedition
(c) to join with him in psychic experiments
(d) to visit him in Russia

2. What did the dervish disapprove of that Gurdjieff did?
(a) He disapproved of Gurdjieff's way of speaking
(b) He disapproved Gurdjieff's practice of Hatha Yoga
(c) He disapproved of Gurdjieff's clothing
(d) He disapproved of Gurdjieff's deceitfulness

3. How does Gurdjieff's opinion about Vitvitskaia change?
(a) It changes from liking her to disliking her.
(b) It changes to one of fear of her powers which he feels are evil
(c) It changes from critical judgment to praise of her virtue.
(d) It changes from indifference to romantic involvement.

4. What was one of Yelov's peculiar habits?
(a) reciting ancient Greek poems to everyone he met
(b) hitching up his trousers
(c) humming constantly
(d) twitching his ears

5. What did Gurdjieff and Yelov have in common?
(a) an interest in medicine
(b) an interest in books and philosophical questions
(c) an interest in women
(d) an interest in becoming wealthy

6. Whom does Skridlov visit in Russia?
(a) members of the Seekers of Truth
(b) his two daughters
(c) his brother
(d) his wife

7. What was his father's profession?
(a) He was an educator at the military academy.
(b) He was a menial laborer.
(c) He was a cattle herder.
(d) He was a rich contractor.

8. Whom do Gurdjieff and Skridlov meet in Afridis?
(a) Father Francis
(b) an old Armenian priest
(c) an old Yogi
(d) Father Giovanni

9. What do Gurdjieff and Skridlov do to be accepted in Bukara where Europeans are hated?
(a) They decide to disguise themselves as whirling dervishes
(b) They take lots of money to bribe people
(c) They grow beards in order to pose as holy men
(d) They decide to convert to Islam

10. Whom did Gurdjieff and his friends go out of the way to visit and why?
(a) a Persian dervish who was supposed to be very wise
(b) a wizard
(c) a famous Tibetan monk
(d) an old Armenian priest

11. What was Gurdjieff doing in Alexandropol when Karpenko stopped off to see him?
(a) studying ancient languages
(b) studying to be a hypnotist
(c) studying spiritualism
(d) studying the influence of vibrations on living things

12. What finally happens to Vitvitskaia?
(a) She marries a wealthy book dealer in Moscow.
(b) She has a child out of wedlock and raises it in Russia.
(c) She travels to North America and settles there.
(d) She takes ill on a journey and dies in Samara.

13. What happened to Ekim Bey in Suram?
(a) He became friends witih Gurdjieff and all his friends
(b) He lost a lot of money gambling
(c) He caught pneumonia and nearly died.
(d) He found an ancient Armenian manuscript.

14. When did Gurdjieff meet Abram Yelov?
(a) When he had buried himelf in reading ancient liturature in Tiflis.
(b) When he was suffering from a high fever and pneumonia
(c) When he given up his search for ancient truths
(d) When he was visiting his family

15. What is one of the conclusions Gurdjieff came to which he shares with the reader at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Europians are superior to Asians
(b) he liked living in Kars the best
(c) no one in Europe knows or has any idea about Asia
(d) none of his many friends have the answers to his questions

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ekim Bey and Gurdjieff get permission to do from the police in Old Tashkent ?

2. What do the two travelers do after their thirst for knowledge is satisfied ?

3. What did Gurdjieff and Karpenko decide to do in order to settle their dispute over the girl?

4. Where does Gurdjieff sell paper flowers and what else does he sell there?

5. What is another conclusion that Gurdjieff came to while writing Chapter 8?

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